• Pocket-sized guide • Provides useful tips to negotiate some of the practical challenges of the intensive care unit • Authored by experts in their practice: a Paediatric Nurse and a Senior Paediatric Intensive Care Consultant. The combined doctor/ nurse approach provides practical insights acquired through decades of caring for children in intensive care. • References national and international evidence, but drugs, dosages, and therapies change rapidly • Combines concise information with useful drawings, tables, and graphs
1. All About Resuscitation 2. Airway and Breathing 3. Cardiac Care 4. The Kidneys and Renal Replacement 5. Liver Function and Failure 6. Neurology – Assessment and Management 7. Oncology Emergency 8. Fluids and Nutrition 9. Blood and Electrolytes 10. Drugs 11. Pain and Sedation 12. Handy Hints for Various Conditions 13. Transport of Critically ill Infants and Children 14. Safeguarding Children and Young People 15. Death of a Child 16. Child Development 17. Quick Reference to Syndromes
Joanna H Davies, BSc (Hons) MSc RGN RSCN ENB 415, Paediatric Retrieval Nurse Practitioner, Paediatric Intensive Care and South Thames Retrieval Service, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London and Marilyn McDougall, MBChB (UCT, SA), DCH(SA), FCPaed (SA), MRCPCH, Paediatric Intensive Care and South Thames Retrieval Service Consultant, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer (Postgraduate teaching, Kings College London), Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London
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